Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Networking & Security • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Whatnot Inc. maintains 5 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across several distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units. This ratio between actions and art units indicates a diverse range of examination environments for the company's current filings. The broad distribution suggests that the company is pursuing multiple distinct technological paths within its primary sector.
EKPO, NNENNA NGOZI is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. This represents a portion of the total pending office actions currently active. The presence of 5 distinct art units suggests that the company's intellectual property strategy covers multiple sub-sectors within the broader Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems category. Each of the distinct examiners brings a unique perspective to the prosecution process, requiring a tailored approach for each individual case. Because the actions do not share an examiner, the company must manage separate prosecution tracks simultaneously. This diversity in examination may result in varying timelines and outcomes across the portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (20%) |
| §103 only | 4 (80%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| EKPO, NNENNA NGOZI | 1 | 71.9% | +20.5% |
| ROBINSON, AKIBA KANELLE | 1 | 38.2% | +24.6% |
| FRUNZI, VICTORIA E. | 1 | 25.4% | +24.4% |
| SEIBERT, CHRISTOPHER B | 1 | 57.4% | +42.9% |
| MERCADO, GABRIEL S | 1 | 42.9% | +25.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18619819 | Item Repacking Interfaces and Digital Transfer Techniques | FRUNZI, VICTORIA E. | 1d overdue |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19000950 | Systems and Methods for Sequencing Items for Sale in a Live Video Event | EKPO, NNENNA NGOZI | 16d overdue |
| 17966494 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREVENTING UNWANTED INTERACTIONS IN A LIVE STREAM EVENT | MERCADO, GABRIEL S | 4d overdue |
| 18619819 | Item Repacking Interfaces and Digital Transfer Techniques | FRUNZI, VICTORIA E. | 1d overdue |
| 18674485 | Intelligent Bundling of Items From a Live Platform | ROBINSON, AKIBA KANELLE | 19d |
| 18200534 | Systems and Methods for Asynchronous Interaction with Time-Limited Social Image or Video Posts | SEIBERT, CHRISTOPHER B | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2425 | 1 |
| 3628 | 1 |
| 3689 | 1 |
| 3688 | 1 |
| 2171 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19000950 | Systems and Methods for Sequencing Items for Sale in a Live Video Event | EKPO, NNENNA NGOZI | 2425 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | Dec 24, 2024 |
| 18674485 | Intelligent Bundling of Items From a Live Platform | ROBINSON, AKIBA KANELLE | 3628 | §103 | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | May 24, 2024 |
| 18619819 | Item Repacking Interfaces and Digital Transfer Techniques | FRUNZI, VICTORIA E. | 3689 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 1d overdue | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18200534 | Systems and Methods for Asynchronous Interaction with Time-Limited Social Image or Video Posts | SEIBERT, CHRISTOPHER B | 3688 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 22, 2023 |
| 17966494 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREVENTING UNWANTED INTERACTIONS IN A LIVE STREAM EVENT | MERCADO, GABRIEL S | 2171 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Oct 14, 2022 |
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